Thanks, Bryce-


I tried that command-- it does shut down Linux, but that's not precisely 
what I'm after. I can do that with the GUI.  APM provided power 
management by automatically shutting down fans, suspending the hard 
drive, etc if there was no activity within a specified time frame. APCI 
should have the same capability, but I have checked the Kernel 
Configurator and APCI is not configured in my kernel. From some stuff I 
have read on the internet, I am not entirely sure that APCI for Linux 
has this capability even if I do get it configured in the kernel.  My 
exposure to this issue has been only a few hours, so I don't really know 
diddly about APCI, except that it delegates power management tasks to 
the OS which were previously managed by the bios under APM. I don't want 
my PC, fans, hard drive etc up and running 24/7, but it rankles me to 
have to shut down and reboot regularly. I would like to get the sleep 
and suspend features working under APCI, or at least find out if I need 
to live with the status quo, and if there are any work-arounds.


Bryce C wrote:

>My mandrake kernel has it already compiled in.  Try 'shutdown -h now'
>and see if it shuts off.
>
>On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 20:35, Lee Einer wrote:
>
>>Hi, all-
>>
>>Has anyone been sucessful installing and configuring ACPI support under 
>>Mandrake 8.2? I just built a new PC and the bios allow power management 
>>witht ACPI only. I would really like to know how to set this up, if it 
>>is possible.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Lee Einer
>>
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